- Your favorite sub-zero heroes are back for another incredible adventure in the super-cool animated comedy Ice Age the Meltdown! The action heats up – and so does the temperature – for Manny, Sid, Diego and Scrat. Trying to escape the valley to avoid a flood of trouble, the comical creatures embark on a hilarious journey across the thawing landscape and meet Ellie, a female woolly mammoth who melts
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Your favorite sub-zero heroes are back for another incredible adventure in the super-cool animated comedy Ice Age the Meltdown! The action heats up – and so does the temperature – for Manny, Sid, Diego and Scrat. Trying to escape the valley to avoid a flood of trouble, the comical creatures embark on a hilarious journey across the thawing landscape and meet Ellie, a female woolly mammoth who melts Manny’s heart. With its dazzling animation, unforgettable characters and an all-new Scrat short, Ice Age: The Meltdown is laugh-out-loud fun for the whole family!Amazon.com
The love life of a woolly mammoth–handled with G-rated delicacy–drives this sequel to the first computer-animated romp in the age of prehistoric mammals. While the first Ice Age took a delightful premise and suffocated it with a formulaic plot–in which a mammoth named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano, Everyone Loves Raymond), a sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo, Moulin Rouge!), and a sabre-tooth tiger named Diego (Denis Leary, Rescue Me) helped an abandoned human infant return to its tribe (basically, Three Mammals and a Baby)–the sequel takes the now-familiar setting, gives it a shapeless, episodic storyline, and yet somehow becomes pretty darn entertaining. Faced with the threat of a flood from melting ice, our heroic trio are on the run to escape from their blossoming valley. On the way, they meet a female mammoth (Queen Latifah, Bringing Down the House) who thinks she’s an opossum and get menaced by some freshly defrosted carnivo! rous fish. Add into the mix a herd of lava-worshipping mini-sloths, some Busby Berkeley-style vultures, and more ingenious slapstick featuring the acorn-crazed Scrat, and Ice Age: The Meltdown will amuse even jaded adults. — Bret Fetzer
Beyond Ice Age: The Meltdown
 Ice Age – Super Cool Edition |
 Ice Age & Ice Age 2: The Meltdown – (DVD 2-Pack) |
 Funtastic Adventures Collection Box Set (Ice Age / Robots / Fern Gully / Once Upon a Rainforest) |
Stills from Ice Age: The Meltdown (click for larger image)
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I purchased this movie for two reasons. First for my 5 year old son, and second to see all the hype about BluRay.
Considering that this is CGI the picture quality should be 5 out of 5, but I have seen standard DVD’s that look better. Not to mention the story line was terrible. My wife and son wanted to stop watching the movie half way through.
In my opinion if this is what BluyRay movies are supposed to represent as the next generation DVD then they have failed.
Now for The Ant Bully on HD-DVD, that is a fantastic movie with perfect picture and sound quality, not to mention my son cannot stop watching it.
Rating: 3 / 5
This chapter in the Ice Age saga was so bad that it made me seriously question my adoration of the original. I was just a kid back then, maybe my laughs came cheaper. . .who knows. And I’m not saying this as someone who dislikes sequels, quite the opposite in fact, but they just didn’t look like they are trying here. They took their polished characters and walked them through their polished backdrops all the while stealing the plot from “The Land Before Time.” And while that movie worked wonders on me back in the day, I was 7 when I went to see it originally. Skrat the Squirrel is given tons more face time here in his endless quest to find and secure a nut. His adventures are mildly entertaining, but only in a “I just woke up and need some kind of brain stimulation kind of way.” The main function of him, however, is to stuff half the film with filler so that the trek of Manny and Co. only has the last about 45 minutes.
The plot is seen as irrelevant by the writers but I’ll outline it for you anyways. The Ice Age is coming to a close. Luckily for Fox this global warming was not caused by SUV’s so they don’t have to worry about calling out their viewers. Our band from the last film has gotten back together, with a few new additions, and they take off in an attempt to find higher ground so as not to be flooded out. Extra peril arrives in the form of pre-pre-historic beasts who are being thawed out by the sun just so that they can chase our heroes around. Not that any of this matters. Mostly we just watch as the characters walk and talk and fight and flirt. My favorite storyline involved Manny the mammoth and his new girlfriend Ellie. They do squeeze a few morsels of humor out of the fact that she is convinced that she is a possum. Unfortunately they made her way too stupid to be either enjoyable or realistic. But because our country can’t get enough stupid jokes (a fun way for people to feel superior to a cartoon) we have to suffer through some pretty terrible jokes. They have more luck playing up Ellie as a angry female who will have no part of Manny’s courtship.
I just got the distinct feeling while watching this that computer animation movies are living off their legacy from about 5 years ago when they were all good. So they take a brand name like “Ice Age,” pump out a short film (good for turnover at the multiplex) and sell it to parents who have no interest in serving their children any nutritional entertainment. I did like the look of this film even if their water was a little off. It also got better as it went along concluding with a climax that tips its hat to “Titanic.” I did wonder about the happy ending though. Considering all that has happened since is it really a good idea for the mammoths to be celebrating the fact they weren’t going extinct. Well these kids don’t know what is wrong with that ending and don’t care, and neither do their parents. **1/2
Rating: 2 / 5
From a parents view I definetly thought this sequel was violent compared
to the first one. We saw this at the the theater, and almost had to leave.
If your expecting this to be just like the first one, you’ll be upset. For a
family with young children, I would suggest renting this before you buy it.
Rating: 2 / 5
The movie I felt is better than the first one. It will appeal more to the grown ups than the previous one did. This time you will get crazier adventures of Scrat the squirrel. I got the region 3 dvd and it was ok nothing special. Cannot comment on the region 1 dvds. The film on the whole is enjoyable if watched once (max twice). I felt Cars was technically far better than IA2
Rating: 4 / 5
I see from others’ reviews that I am in a distinct, possibly singular, minority here, however our family views practically every animated release these days (thanks to our toddler). This is the worst, by far, of any of the recent crop. The dialogue is crass and obvious, using the comedians’ (Leary, Romano, Latifa & a mush-mouthed Leguizamo) schtick “attitude” to drive a vehicle with essentially no plot whatsoever (escaping a flood?). None of the characters draw much sympathy, as the harshness of each of these comedians’ delivery virtually negates any bond with the audience, young or old. The film consists primarily of plenty of animated and often violent sight-gag filler, and crass pandering to certain adult “sensibilities”. Even the animated “laugh-guarantee” characters, such as the possums, seem mean-spirited and ugly. Terrible flick – don’t expose your children to such garbage.
Rating: 1 / 5